Missing James Fortune

I gotta ask you, what is the baddest, and I mean the baddest radio show in the land.

Oh, I must say the Steve Army morning.

Hello.

James Fortune.

Yes.

Brad How are you?

Hey, Brad, how you doing?

I'm doing wonderful.

Good to good to hear from you.

Yes, sir.

Uh listen, Steve Harvey show.

We're calling you.

Um how far out are you from the actual studio now?

Seems like we've got you on schedule and you'll be we'll have you ready for the two thirty show.

We were behind schedule, but we're on schedule now for two thirty.

Were you actually uh I noticed you weren't in your dressing room yet and you're not um in here and make up.

So I I'm I got a little worried, so I wanted to give you a call.

Oh no, I hadn't I didn't I'm I'm I didn't get a date to be there today.

I'm sorry?

I didn't get a date to be there today.

I didn't I don't no one I mean I was canceled, you know, postponed, but I didn't get a new date yet.

No one ever gave me a date.

I'm in Houston.

I I never even got a a new flight or anything.

The last one I talked to, I could think of waste.

You're in Houston, Texas?

Yeah.

Yeah.

You've gotta be kidding me.

Come here.

Yeah, nobody ever gave me a date today.

James Fortune is not here.

No.

He's in Houston, Texas.

We have left messages.

We've sent emails.

Have you not gotten any of our information?

No, I hadn't gotten anything.

I I have no one has sent me emails or messages.

I've talked to Kathena every time there's been anything with the show.

I've gotten all the emails.

I've gotten everything.

I'm looking at paperwork here, sir, that's showing emails that you were supposed to be here.

You knew it.

And you No, sir.

I'm looking at paperwork here.

How how how listen?

Let me say this to you.

Let me just be as clear as I can.

Okay?

I've had I've had several people drop out on me.

My job is against the line, and I don't have any fing room to do a f up.

I don't have it.

Okay.

I understand it.

But sir, uh this is you're just James Fortune.

Like I don't there's no James Fort, there's no communication in James Fortune.

I've been the most cooperative.

I responded to everything.

I don't understand why the f you aren't here.

You are up in Do you understand you are up in less than 45 minutes here?

And no You're not in my makeup.

You're not in here.

You're not in the building.

I've reached out to everyone.

They have no emails about me coming, sir.

I I mean I I this is important to me.

There's no way I would not be there.

I'm doing nothing today.

I would have this was big for me.

Can I can I go get on a flight right now?

You can't get on a fing flight right now, James.

Be here before the show.

It's impossible.

How can you be here before the show?

You know, Mr.

Steve Harvey is looking for you right now.

He is looking for you.

He has actually been asking, where's James Fortune?

He wants to meet you before the show.

Sir, I will go to the airport right now.

I don't know if you'll have evening taping that we can take the second.

I'm telling you right now, if I lose my job, I promise you, I don't know if I'm gonna win or lose, but I'm gonna kick your black ass.

But why would you why would you lose your job?

Someone else, you're the producer.

You're not the one I've been communicating with.

I communicate with Katina, period, about everything.

Cancelled, added to the show, taking off the show.

No one gave me this date.

James, no one called it.

I don't even think.

Yeah.

Hey, James Fortune.

This is Thomas Miles.

Nephew Tommy from the Steve Harvey Morning Show.

Negro, you just got pranked.

Oh, man.

That's crazy, man.

Oh, hey, man.

Let me say this to you.

You held your composure.

You stayed professional.

You didn't lose it.

And I want to say this.

Despite anything that I have ever heard about you, I think things are looking up, and I think things are looking positive, and I think you're on your way to doing bigger and better business.

And I mean that.

You hear me, man?

Wow, yeah.

Wow, thank you so man.

Thank you.

I you see I you see the the sessions and everything been helping.

I was I was calm, cool, collective.

Whatever, whatever's going on in the sessions, the session is working.

I'm like, man, he cuts to the eye to everything.

I was like, I just gotta I can I can't control I can only control my response.

Not nobody else's actions.

I'm like, Steve looking for you.

I say, oh

Let me ask you this, man.

How are you doing?

I'm doing good, man.

Honestly.

I mean, I'm doing really good.

You know, I uh I'm gonna be honest with you, the accountability part of it and just taking responsibility, it really released a lot of the you know, the shame and the hurt, and just be able to just say, you know what, it was me, this, you know, and um for that, it just it helps so many people too.

Um just be like to see a man say, you know what, yeah, I did mess up, and it was my fault.

It wasn't, you know, this person or that person, and and and to get the help over the last two years and the therapy over the last two years, it's really been a blessing, man.

So I'm glad you got me now and not two years ago.

The main thing is knowing we did something wrong, owning up for it, and saying, you know what, I'm gonna do better and I'm gonna get past this.

And that's what life is all about, man.

So I wish you uh great things in your future, man.

I hope you prosper and and do your thing and anything done in the past, man, it's in the past, and you ask God to deliver you from it and daddy.

Yeah.

Yeah, and I and that means a lot too, because you know, you never know who really is with you until you go through something like this.

And in essence, man, for you to show me so much love and for you to embrace me as a brother uh when I saw you down there in New Orleans meant a lot.

So man, I just want to sort of say thank you for that, and uh that meant a lot to me.

Much love to you, boy.

But I gotta ask you this, man.

What is the baddest, and I mean the baddest James Fortune, radio show in the land.

The Steve Harvey morning show and down.

I don't care who is it.

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Hello, I'm trying to reach uh Pastor Hayes.

Um, this is he.

Pastor Hayes, how you doing?

This is this is Brother Line, Lonnie Thompson.

How you doing?

I'm I'm good, brother.

I and how can I help you today?

I'm actually one of your members at the church, and I want to just commend you that you're doing a good job the way you um uh displaying uh safety.